Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stanton's, so much so that the film could be called Regarding Henry (a 1991 Nichols movie that Klein particularly admires). Henry--a young black man so properly educated, so fully integrated into the political elite that another black pegs him as "the white man's Burton"--is the soul up for grabs in Primary Colors. He joins the Stanton campaign because he thinks, "This guy could be the real thing." Delicately played by British stage star Adrian Lester (As You Like It, Company), Henry is a can-do Candide, a fixer who keeps hoping Stanton is the best...
With the attention back on the President, the scandal has granted the Democrats a double bonus. First, they avoid the embarrassing, public soul-searching Gephardt was pushing, Second, they may even be helped by Clinton's remarkable approval ratings. Republicans, on the other hand, face the unpleasant possibility of considering the impeachment of a popular President based on the recommendations of an unpopular Independent Counsel for charges many consider superfluous...
...album goes, mixing Frank Zappa into a black sheep cover of Frederick Knight's northern soul lament, "Lonely," taking a cool, excited, but never tense reigns over the popular arrangements and sound bites of Western culture. On "Marbles," Kermit's soft spoken rap pulls a danceable pulse out of the rambling cowboy melody that eventually surrenders to a rousing disco-esque horn section. Only the fifth track, "Rubber Band," goes too far. Where the rest of Stupid, Stupid, Stupid makes a cheerfully boisterous rewiring of the listener's head, "Rubber Band" pummels it with a crow...
Here, the funky part of one's soul wants to stand up for Black Grape in the name of aesthetics and the sublime. After all, the album's title came from the words Kermit once had to substitute on television for the line "talking bullshit...bullshit...bullshit" from Black Grape's first album: "talking stupid... stupid...stupid" seems apt. Children listening to Black Grape can count on getting some very wrong ideas, and all good people everywhere whose sympathy is not limited to liberal white drug-using men can count on being insulted by some part of the album...
...brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then a group of Harvard students gathered together with the purpose of discussion is an especially witless occasion. We speak well, we have profound things to say, and we love to hear ourselves talk. The point is, it seems that all we do is talk...